Paris News

The City of Somerset has officially joined with several other city and county governments in the state in filing a petition for declaratory judgment against the Kentucky Labor Cabinet following an audit regarding calculation of firefighter overtime and state training incentive pay for members of paid fire departments.

The grandfather of a six-year-old boy who was murdered by Lewis "Buck" Ballard has died.

Bobby Mullins passed away Sunday at his home after a long illness.

Wesley Mullins was murdered by Ballard, 51, while the boy was visiting his grandfather's home in Bourbon County in August 2007.

Ro Parra's Millennium Farms, located near Paris, Ky., has announced 2010 stud fees for its Kentucky stallions, including a decrease in two fees and three others which remain at 2009 levels.

Jean-Luc Ponty was educated in classical music and said his dream as a teenager was to become a conductor, but then he discovered jazz in the early 1960s.

The idea of some type of standardized dress for students in schools proposed by Pastor Rusty Hedges of Calvary Methodist Church in a letter to the editor Sunday deserves consideration.

I never much wanted to grow up to be a cowboy. From an early age, I recognized that dudes and riverboat gamblers like Bret Maverick and Bat Masterson lived more interesting, less dusty lives than, say, Rowdy Yates.

Ghostzapper , stood for $125,000 in 2009. Awesome Again, who also stands at Adena Springs, will stand the next breeding season for $50,000. Awesome Again stood for $125,000 in 2009.

A Mercer County man is in jail after police say he led them on a high speed chase, nearly hit a cruiser head on, then crashed into a car full of kids.

Police say a man was arrested late Saturday night after he led them on a high-speed chase that started in Scott County and ended in Bourbon County, according to WLEX-TV . The man nearly hit a cruiser head on and crashed into a car full of kids who had just finished trick-or-treating, WLEX-TV reported.

Paris Police are investigating an early morning murder. They say 30 year old Derek Stockton was stabbed 3 times in the torso outside his home on Shannon Road.

A Paris man is under arrest and charged with murder following a stabbing early Saturday.

'It helped me and I think it will be good for our school,' Paris High School sophomore Christopher Ray said Wednesday upon leaving a Challenge Day experience in the high school gymnasium.

As Lewis "Buck" Ballard starts serving his life sentence in prison for killing six year old Wesley Mullins, friends, family and strangers of the boy gathered on Thursday in Bourbon County to remember him at the place he was killed.

A balloon release is scheduled to remember a six-year-old boy murdered in Bourbon County.

parisite said in the Paris Forum:

May Wesley rest in peace.

Nearly two dozen dogs were taken from a Bourbon county home Monday after the animal control officer said they were living in unhealthy conditions.

Lexington-based McMahon Bloodstock and Hidden Brook Farm in Paris are involved in a cooperative effort to bolster business for their individual companies during a time of economic challenges.

Police in Bourbon County said a man was arrested after he barricaded himself in a house and fired a shot at an officer.

hey said in the Paris Forum:

anyone know who it was? what was it about?

The old building doesn't look like much, standing across East Third Street from a demolition site and the King Cobras motorcycle club.